004: Friendship: How to Encourage Healthy Relationships
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
Release Date: 08/03/2018
Mastery: How to Support Social Emotional Learning
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
I interview Sarah Engle and Bene Webster, co-founders of UsPlus on mastery in the context of Social Emotional Learning (SEL). We discuss ways to support and assess SEL in the classrooms and at home.
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030: Whiteness and Niceness: How to Talk to Young People about Inequity
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Angelina Castagno, Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, and the Executive Director of Just Perspective, LLC. She discusses her research around the concepts of Whiteness and Niceness in terms of inequity and injustice with the interaction of race, gender, and social class.
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029: Model Minority: Uncovering Assumptions on Asian Americans
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Judy Wu, PhD Stanford, Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies in the School of Humanities, at the University of California, Irvine. She shares her personal experience on as an Asian immigrant and anecdotes on raising her children in California and Ohio. She also shares concrete examples of how schools and public institutions can create an inclusive and global understanding of the United States
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028: Language: Myths in Bilingualism and Language Impairment
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Elizabeth Pena, Speech Language Pathologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine. She shares insights on issues and myths in language diagnostics in schools based on her 30+ years of experience in the field and in research. We've also discussed implicit Biases in bilingualism, consequences in overidentification to under-identification of language impairment, and how parents can advocate for timely and accurate language testing at school.
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027: Special Education: How to Advocate for an Inclusive School
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I chat with Melanie, Emmy award-winning filmmaker, community activist, mother of 3, and former ward of the state. She shares her personal experience raising and advocating for a daughter with Down syndrome. She discusses implicit biases she had as a new parent and biases she has encountered as an educator and parent. She shares a number of resources in this episode.
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026: Race: How to Talk to Young People about Race
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I chat with Ivonne Ortega about how and when to talk about race and gender biases with your children. We discuss the concept of implicit bias and what it means in families, schools, and society. Ivonne shares tips on how to equip your child with the language of a critical thinker to talk about racism.
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024: Implicit Bias: How to Talk to Young People about Gender
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
Our second topic of the 6-part series: Gender. Courtney shares her wealth of knowledge on how to have conversations with your children about gender identity and gender expression, what schools can do to diagnose their culture and climate, what an inclusive curriculum looks like, and TONS of quality and research-based resources related to gender and sexuality, in forms of TED talks, books, and organizations.
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024: Privilege: How to Talk to Young People about Privilege
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day, I'm airing a special series of intimate and insightful interviews with four Harvard educators and two University of California professors on topics related to Implicit Bias. As an Equity and Inclusion fellow who works with schools, parents, and students, Andrew discusses what privilege is and what it is not, and how we can talk openly about it with young people.
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023: Update on 52 Essential Conversations and How to Use
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
In this episode, I take the interviewee position and share with you an interview I had with KUCI 88.9FM. First, I'm happy to announce that the social and emotional learning game I've developed, 52 Essential Conversations is now used in all 50 states and 31 countries. Then, I share with you my responses to the most commonly asked questions related to how to make the most out of the game.
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022: Overcoming Obstacles: How to Honor Ourselves and Owning the Journey
52 Essential Conversations to Inspire Children
Tune in to my intimate conversation with Taheera Massey, an Elementary teacher, mom of three, and Yogi. Taheera shares her personal story of how she overcomes obstacles when she was a young mom. She provides ways on how language and self-talk shape your perspectives, and in turn, translate into how her students, children, and surrounding adults view her. She shares tips on how to include children in the conversation and encourage them to "create their own boxes."
info_outline"How can I get my shy child out of his shell?" "How do I get my child to stand up for herself?" In this episode, I chat with Kira Repici, Montessori and Yoga teacher, about ways to support your child's own process of unfolding into healthy friendships. In addition, hear how conflict resolution process works in her Montessori classroom. Lastly, important playdate etiquettes for adults.